[Libguestfs] [PATCH 6/7] v2v: quiet virtio net and balloon devices wizards

[Cedric Bosdonnat]

On Wed, 2016-04-06 at 11:43 +0300, Roman Kagan wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 10:13:35AM +0200, Cedric Bosdonnat wrote:
> > The problem with running after the PnP is that user will be
> > prompted
> > for installation of virtio-net and virtio-balloon drivers... which
> > doesn't make sense as we are going to install them automatically
> > anyway.
> [...]
> > Some versions of windows (2008 IIRC) are explicitly waiting for
> > user
> > input in the PnP wizard: the best it not to show the PnP dialogs
> > for
> > the virtio devices to the user at all.
> 
> I tend to agree that not prompting the user here provides better user
> experience; however I don't feel like this is a major issue.
> 
> Regardless of the severity of the problem, the solution you propose -
> -
> disabling the prompts for specific device instance IDs -- is IMO way
> too
> unreliable and PnP manager will still want to interact in a number of
> common cases:
> 
> - if the devices get enumerated differently and Windows assigns
>   different instance IDs to them
> 
> - if there's more than one device of any kind
> 
> - if there are new devices beyond those you handle (e.g. virtio
> -serial)

Hum, I fear you're right.

> I think this would be better addressed if you could disable PnP
> manager
> prompts globally during v2v, and reset it back in a firstboot script
> after your installer had been run.

Any idea how to do that?

--
Cedric